The horizontal line represents the person’s life.1630 - born1660 - “The
Gentile Sinner, or England’s brave gentleman characterised, in a letter to a friend”1674 - “Ca^
techism”; “The
vanity of Scoffing-, in a letter to a witty gentleman”1674 - “Ca^
techism”; “The
vanity of Scoffing-, in a letter to a witty gentleman”1682 - “Christianity in short, or the short way to be a
good Christian”1700 - died

Ellis, Clement

, an English divine, whose writings,
in the opinion of a recent biographer, deserve to be more
extensively known than, it is apprehended, they now are,
or ever have been, was the son of Mr. Ellis, steward to
Dr. Barnaby Potter, bishop of Carlisle, and wasjborn in
1630, near Penrith in Cumberland. He became a servitor
of Queen’s college, Oxford, under the tuition of Mr.
Thomas Tully, in 1649, and was afterwards a tabarder;
and when master of arts, became a fellow of the college.

He received several donations towards his subsistence at
Oxford from unknown hands, with anonymous letters informing him that those sums were in consideration of his
father’s sufferings, and to encourage his progress in his
studies; and he received several such presents and letters,
both before and after his heingin orders, without his knowing whence they came; but after the restoration, he had
some reason to believe he owed them to. Dr. Jeremy Taylor, and Dr. Hammond, being part of those collections
of money put into their hands by charitable and welldisposed persons for the support and encouragement of
such as had been plundered or oppressed by the republican government. Mr. Ellis, when he had taken orders,
was patronized by William, marquis, and afterwards duke
of Newcastle, who presented him to the rectory of Kirkhy
in Nottinghamshire, of which he was a most laborious,
useful, and exemplary minister. In 1693 he was appointed,
by archbishop Sharp, a prebendary in the collegiate church
of Southwell, merely in reward of his merits and usefulness. He died in 1700, aged about seventy. His writings
in practical theology are distinguished for eminent and fervent piety, soundness of doctrine, and a vigorous, unaffected, and manly style. The principal are, 1. “The
Gentile Sinner, or England’s brave gentleman characterised, in a letter to a friend,” 1660, 12mo, a work which
was written in a fortnight, in the early part of the author’s
life, and has considerable merit both in design and exe^
cution. It has gone through many editions. 2. A “Ca^
techism,” 1674, reprinted in 1738, 8vo, by ibr Rev. John
Veneer, rector of St. Andrews, Chichester, with a life of
| the author, and other additions, by Veneer. 3. “The
vanity of Scoffing-, in a letter to a witty gentleman,” 1674,
4to. 4. “Christianity in short, or the short way to be a
good Christian,” 1682, 12mo, oftener reprinted than any
of his works. He published some other pious, and some
controversial tracts of less importance, enumerated by
Wood, several single sermons, and two pieces of poetry,
one on the death of George Pitt, esq. Oxford, 1653, 4to,
the other on the Restoration, London, 1660, fol. 1

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